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I have a long list of hobbies. Posts on this blog will be of a wide range and mix. Pretty much my trials, tribulations and successes will be posted here as I mosey along the long and winding hobby road of life. I fade sometimes. I am trying to be better about that.

I spin. I own a Kromski Polonaise now. This is a big birthday year for me (2009) and so this year called for gifting myself with my dream spinning wheel. Vivat! Vivat! Vivat!

I knit. I am not a great knitter but I keep trying. My first sweater is still in progress. On Ravelry I am SecretSpindle. I dabble in felting as well.

I am in the SCA and my persona is a 1550's Ottoman Turkish woman. Her name is Safiye bint Kara Sun'Allah. I live in the Kingdom of Aethelmearc and the Barony of Thescorre. I am trying to become more involved. This year my daughter joined up with me and is very eager to learn fencing. She got a starter set at Pennsic 38 for her birthday. I love garb creation. She has chosen Italian Ren so that will bring me some costuming challenge. This past year I have worked on making my Turkish garb more accurate. Now time for the detail work. I want to learn the Scribal Arts as well.

Genealogy is a big part of my life. There is a separate blog for that.

Letterboxing. I love to do it but it got lost in the "OMG, I just don't have enough time for all of this!!" shuffle.

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Friday, September 3, 2010

... to be better about this blog as I made a lot of garb during May, June and July. I wanted to document some of my time spent in the fury of Pennsic prep. My winter list didn't end up touched and so it was down to the wire sewing for three people. For myself I didn't really need much garb wise but I had bought this beautiful fabric last year that I wanted to make an Entari out of it. My daughter decided on her persona (15th Century Florentine) and her boyfriend has been inducted into the SCA by becoming part of our family (he is 13th Century Celt migrated with the Romany to Italy). His very first event was... Pennsic. He is still grinning over the experience. Both he and my daughter registered names and devices while there, they were really productive.. he even has his persona's story, my Safiye has no story!). I had made him five very simple "starter" tunics and we will pinpoint his garb interests soon to start getting some things done for him. My daughter had four dresses made. I have the fabric to make a very nice ensemble for her, it is not every day were. What we did learn is she spent more time in one dress that had no sleeves to it, Pennsic was extremely hot this year so she will need a couple more dresses like that for next year. Next year I will be there two weeks being on Staff, if they can make the two weeks they will, it depends on their job/school. So that means being prepared clothing wise.

We are "half" period and I want to focus on being all period this winter. We have no cold weather wear. No nightwear. I want to pay a little more attention to detail, I seem to deal with time and quantity. At Pennsic we purchased trim to add to his tunics so they will be a bit more nice for him.

Me, Myself and I. Safiye, my persona is 16th Century Turkish. I have never pinpointed her time and place, her social status or anything and every time I see Italian, Tudor and Flemish art, well I want one of those, those and oh! those too!! This year I have been thinking about changing persona, Spanish intrigues me but then I still like every period bit of clothing I see. So I expect it is not the persona but my interests. I want to make garb, I want to get good at it. I want to be able to look at a painting and create. So, I am toying with Safiye being "Safiye of 1000 Dresses". Lol. What I would like to do is decide on a period of time and perhaps make garb from different places but stick to that time. Take advantage of the Silk Road. One idea I had was to pick three regions of Italy, say Rome, Florence and Venice and a 20 year range of time. Then research and create working class, middle class and upper class examples. That is 9 ensembles and that will take me a long time. But the idea is forming and being mulled over daily.

In the meantime, I am starting with Reconstructing History's Campi's Fruitseller pattern #508 for myself.

Pictures, not the best, but you can see the dresses I made my daughter, we really need to do the full garb/look and do some proper photographs.. I will put it on the winter project list.. ha ha ha:

Your dresses are amazing. Would you recommend an entry level medievalist interested in SCA to make their own gear or buy some premade stuff. Im more of a medieval history guy with my blog and am interested in possibly getting into armored combat. It seems pretty cool.